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9781772140316 | Anvil Pr, November 30, 2015, cover price $20.00

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9780889229419 | Talonbooks Ltd, November 10, 2015, cover price $24.95

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9781554200962 | New Star Books, April 30, 2015, cover price $21.00

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Product Description: When thirteen-year-old Harry Fieldstone and his friends start a Poets' Club at school, they don't expect they'll be involved in anything more complicated than limericks and rhyming barbs directed towards one another. But then Harry stumbles across something unexpected - a ring...read more

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9781770864429 | Dancing Cat Books, May 16, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: When thirteen-year-old Harry Fieldstone and his friends start a Poets' Club at school, they don't expect they'll be involved in anything more complicated than limericks and rhyming barbs directed towards one another.

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Product Description: Finalist for the 2013 BC Book Prizes Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. Shortlisted for the 2013 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. As a teenager, legendary Canadian author George Bowering lived the life of an ordinary boy. He loved baseball, read Westerns, held a part-time job, and fantasized about girls and women...read more

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9781770864016 | Reprint edition (Cormorant Books, August 1, 2014), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Finalist for the 2013 BC Book Prizes Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.

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Product Description: Teeth by George Bowering

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9781771260008 | Mansfield Pr, April 1, 2013, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Teeth by George Bowering

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Product Description: How I Wrote Certain of My Books takes its name from a volume of the same title by French Surrealist Raymond Roussel. George Bowering borrows Roussel's conceit and expands it into a non-chronological memoirÑa colourful, illuminating, occasionally scandalous journey through the writing of nearly 30 of his books...read more

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9781894469555 | Mansfield Pr, November 10, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: How I Wrote Certain of My Books takes its name from a volume of the same title by French Surrealist Raymond Roussel.

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9780889226340 | 1 edition (Talonbooks Ltd, May 31, 2010), cover price $39.95

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9781554200450 | New Star Books, September 14, 2009, cover price $19.00

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The true story of the notorious and murderous McLean Gang that roamed the West of the late 1870s provides the framework for a chronicle of a group of cultural outcasts who belong to nothing and who meet a tragic end

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9780312140458 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, December 1, 1995), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The true story of the notorious and murderous McLean Gang that roamed the West of the late 1870s provides the framework for a chronicle of a group of cultural outcasts who belong to nothing and who meet a tragic end

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9781554200412 | New Star Books, October 1, 2008, cover price $19.00

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It is extraordinary that one can take the measure of how radically cultural sensibilities can change throughout a century by a careful reading of only two texts—in this case Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, written in the midst of the First World War, and George Bowering’s brilliant response to Rilke’s call, the Kerrisdale Elegies, composed in the midst of the Cold War.Rilke’s poem begins and ends with a modernist appeal to the transcendent. It opens with; “Who, if I were to scream, would then hear me, among the angelic orders … ,” and ends with a nostalgic evocation of the muse of grief attendant at the spectacle of the sacrifice of youth; “we who aspire to an ascendant fortune, are overcome by astonishment at the fortunate’s fall.” [Rilke’s italics]Compare to Bowering’s opening; “If I did complain, who among my friends would hear?” and his closing; “The single events that raise our eyes and stop our time are saying goodbye, lover, goodbye.”Bowering’s Kerrisdale Elegies are a profoundly compelling illustration of Pound’s instruction to all translators—to “make it new.” In the intertextuality of these two great masterworks is to be found the birth of a post-modern writing that is self-aware, where the other is discovered in the process of the writer writing, and is not a referent, neither secular nor divine, outside of the text itself, and therefore ultimately estranged from both the writer and the reader.Williams’ dictum, too, that writers should write “no ideas but in things” so thoroughly infuses Bowering’s Kerrisdale Elegies, that while they are an exact equivalent to Rilke’s emblematic masterpiece—separated as they are by three generations of one of the most tumultuous centuries in human history—they are not a translation, but a living, vibrant transformation of the work.

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9780889225909 | Talonbooks Ltd, November 28, 2008, cover price $18.95
9780889102651 | Coach House Pr, December 1, 1984, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: It is extraordinary that one can take the measure of how radically cultural sensibilities can change throughout a century by a careful reading of only two texts—in this case Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, written in the midst of the First World War, and George Bowering’s brilliant response to Rilke’s call, the Kerrisdale Elegies, composed in the midst of the Cold War.

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9781554200368 | New Star Books, August 30, 2007, cover price $19.00

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Product Description: George Bowering has always maintained many of his poems are germinated in secret ways—secrets he has, until now, assiduously kept to himself. In suddenly giving most of those secrets away, Vermeer’s Light, much of it written while Bowering was “in office” as Canada’s first Poet Laureate, constitutes an extraordinary gesture of generosity from a poet to his readership who has so honoured him...read more

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9780889225466 | Talonbooks Ltd, October 1, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: George Bowering has always maintained that his poems are germinated in secret ways - secrets he has, until now, assiduously kept to himself.

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9780889225657 | Talonbooks Ltd, April 20, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: George Bowering has always maintained many of his poems are germinated in secret ways—secrets he has, until now, assiduously kept to himself.

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During the final days of the Old West, Caprice, a beautiful, strong-willed woman determined to find the man who killed her brother, encounters a colorful collection of good guys and bad guys

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9780670812073 | Viking Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: During the final days of the Old West, Caprice, a beautiful, strong-willed woman determined to find the man who killed her brother, encounters a colorful collection of good guys and bad guys

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9780140093087 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: During the final days of the Old West, Caprice, a beautiful, strong-willed woman determined to find the man who killed her brother, encounters a colorful collection of good guys and bad guys

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Product Description: Having written books in practically every genre, George Bowering is often introduced as someone who adores baseball, yet ironically he did not begin this book about the game until he was appointed Canada’s first Poet Laureate for 2002–04...read more

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9780889225299 | Talonbooks Ltd, April 4, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Having written books in practically every genre, George Bowering is often introduced as someone who adores baseball, yet ironically he did not begin this book about the game until he was appointed Canada’s first Poet Laureate for 2002–04.

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9781552451236 | Reprint edition (Coach House Books, February 1, 2004), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: In a parody of a thriller novel, Harry the Hack, newly recruited literary spy, follows a mystery woman seeking wisdom and sanity.

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9780889103870 | Talonbooks Ltd, June 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In a parody of a thriller novel, Harry the Hack, newly recruited literary spy, follows a mystery woman seeking wisdom and sanity.

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9781552451151 | 1 edition (Coach House Books, October 1, 2002), cover price $17.95

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